2011 New York Jets Season Thread ( 8-8 ) SHOTTY STEPS DOWN , PLAYERS BASH SANCHEZ ....

According to thejetsblog
Buddy Ryan Postpones Surgery to See Sons Coach This Weekend

by Bassett on September 5th, 2011 at 2:25 pm

Rex and Rob Ryan’s father Buddy Ryan will be in attendance this Sunday in the primetime matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets.

Cowboys DC Rob Ryan said Monday that his dad was diagnosed last week with cancer in a gland that has spread to his neck.

Buddy Ryan has had numerous boughts with cancer during his life and beaten them repeatedly. Buddy asked doctors to postpone an operation until after Rex and Rob square off this coming weekend.
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*To those of you in the Jets vs. Jets Fantasy League*

I'm willing to trade either Joe Flacco or Matt Ryan for a solid RB.

Send me offers, please and thank you.

Edit: Jags/Jets Week 2, I will be there
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*To those of you in the Jets vs. Jets Fantasy League*

I'm willing to trade either Joe Flacco or Matt Ryan for a solid RB.

Send me offers, please and thank you.

Edit: Jags/Jets Week 2, I will be there
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, just bought my tickets.
 
Plaxico Burress: I Stuck A Knife Right Through My Own Heart

Originally Posted by Plaxico Burress

After forty eight people were shot in New York City this weekend, I felt the need to get this off of my chest. This doesn't really have anything to do with football, but just what I can do to help young people in the community ... especially anybody that is going through something similar to what I went through. My focus right now is not about helping anyone in football, but helping people in life.

I have asked myself ever since the incident happened, where were my decision making abilities at that time? What led me to make a decision, or lack of judgement to put everything that I had worked so hard for, to just throw it away, so quickly. I let so many people down, my wife, my kids, my family, my fans, my community ... my priorities were not in the right place.

It was very hard for me to accept that although I thought I was a leader, and maybe I was a leader on the football field, in actuality I was so caught up in being part of my environment that I really was a follower. The problem is I realized all of this when it was too late ... you dream of winning the Super Bowl, getting a new contract, I had just had a son, I had my own shoe coming out on Nike the following year.

During that time, I don't think I really understood the magnitude of the responsibilities that I had. It was quite obvious that I didn't. Before I even understood what had happened, it was all gone.

I was accustomed to carrying a gun, and no one even knew I was a gun owner until it accidentally discharged that night. I thought at that time that it would give me some extra security, mentally, as I had been robbed at gunpoint at one point in my life and my house had been robbed twice.

But, as far as from a physical standpoint ... being in that cell for seventeen hours a day for twenty-one months, I had A LOT of time to think and just the thought of someone shooting at me and me pulling the trigger to shoot back, that's a situation I never want to find myself in ... EVER.

It's mind-boggling to even live a life where a thought like that crosses your mind. When you think about it, would I really shoot a gun to deal with a situation, no way....

When I think about this weekend in New York City where forty eight people were shot and the increasing senseless violence that has hit our communities so hard...a lot of young people who are doing the shooting, I have to ask, do you really want to pull a trigger and kill somebody and put yourself in a situation where you will go to jail for twenty five years to life?

I read recently a line that said, "If it doesn't benefit you, then it has no place in your kingdom." And definitely walking around the street with a gun doesn't benefit anybody or anybody around you.

For most of us we don't even understand what it means until you get in prison. I was in there with guys who were twenty, twenty-one years old with life sentences who are never leaving, walking around like they getting out in two weeks!

I went from living my life, being able to go anywhere in the world, to people slamming the door behind me and being in stone cold cage! You can see cars and all of these things going by on the outside and you're in a cage...inside a fence...you can't go anywhere...and now you have another man control your life telling you what you can do. And what brings me great sadness, is that in our communities, we actually celebrate young men for going to jail, like it is some rite of passage to manhood.

This is totally backwards..the wrong way. If it takes someone like me to explain to young people about my situation, I am raising my hand and stepping to the front and saying loudly and clearly, I messed up and prison is no place for any of us to aspire to go to.

I cried myself to sleep so many nights, I can't even count...I lost count. Being in that cell, laying in that bed every night, I cried...I threw away everything.

But lucky for me, when I came home everything was somewhat still in place, but for a lot of guys it isn't like that. Being in prison doesn't make you a man...being away from your family and having a daughter born while you're prison...that right there will make you a man. Talking about having your heart snatched out of your chest and stomped on. That's what made me get my life in order.

I got a daughter, I got a son, I got a wife...I made a very selfish decision by putting myself in that position to go to prison. To have my daughter born while I was in prison, it is something that I'll always have a difficult time getting over. The only thing I can do now is to be a better father. But, to see my family for the first time when I was locked up, you want to talk about sticking a knife through your heart, that'll do it.

Everybody has been asking me why did I stay in New York? The foundation is already set for the platform I have in this town to be able to give back, to go into these communities and do charitable work. For me to come back here to do what I love to do and to re-establish myself back in New York and New Jersey, I think it was the right thing to do...not to run away from it, but try to finish something that I started.

I LOVE New York City, I love the people, I love everything about it, my fans have thankfully embraced me...I just love this town and I am so humble at this point in my life, that I just want to make my family proud and this city a better place for young people to grow up in.

-Plaxico Burress

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Looking forward to his redemption tour.
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Plaxico Burress: I Stuck A Knife Right Through My Own Heart

Originally Posted by Plaxico Burress

After forty eight people were shot in New York City this weekend, I felt the need to get this off of my chest. This doesn't really have anything to do with football, but just what I can do to help young people in the community ... especially anybody that is going through something similar to what I went through. My focus right now is not about helping anyone in football, but helping people in life.

I have asked myself ever since the incident happened, where were my decision making abilities at that time? What led me to make a decision, or lack of judgement to put everything that I had worked so hard for, to just throw it away, so quickly. I let so many people down, my wife, my kids, my family, my fans, my community ... my priorities were not in the right place.

It was very hard for me to accept that although I thought I was a leader, and maybe I was a leader on the football field, in actuality I was so caught up in being part of my environment that I really was a follower. The problem is I realized all of this when it was too late ... you dream of winning the Super Bowl, getting a new contract, I had just had a son, I had my own shoe coming out on Nike the following year.

During that time, I don't think I really understood the magnitude of the responsibilities that I had. It was quite obvious that I didn't. Before I even understood what had happened, it was all gone.

I was accustomed to carrying a gun, and no one even knew I was a gun owner until it accidentally discharged that night. I thought at that time that it would give me some extra security, mentally, as I had been robbed at gunpoint at one point in my life and my house had been robbed twice.

But, as far as from a physical standpoint ... being in that cell for seventeen hours a day for twenty-one months, I had A LOT of time to think and just the thought of someone shooting at me and me pulling the trigger to shoot back, that's a situation I never want to find myself in ... EVER.

It's mind-boggling to even live a life where a thought like that crosses your mind. When you think about it, would I really shoot a gun to deal with a situation, no way....

When I think about this weekend in New York City where forty eight people were shot and the increasing senseless violence that has hit our communities so hard...a lot of young people who are doing the shooting, I have to ask, do you really want to pull a trigger and kill somebody and put yourself in a situation where you will go to jail for twenty five years to life?

I read recently a line that said, "If it doesn't benefit you, then it has no place in your kingdom." And definitely walking around the street with a gun doesn't benefit anybody or anybody around you.

For most of us we don't even understand what it means until you get in prison. I was in there with guys who were twenty, twenty-one years old with life sentences who are never leaving, walking around like they getting out in two weeks!

I went from living my life, being able to go anywhere in the world, to people slamming the door behind me and being in stone cold cage! You can see cars and all of these things going by on the outside and you're in a cage...inside a fence...you can't go anywhere...and now you have another man control your life telling you what you can do. And what brings me great sadness, is that in our communities, we actually celebrate young men for going to jail, like it is some rite of passage to manhood.

This is totally backwards..the wrong way. If it takes someone like me to explain to young people about my situation, I am raising my hand and stepping to the front and saying loudly and clearly, I messed up and prison is no place for any of us to aspire to go to.

I cried myself to sleep so many nights, I can't even count...I lost count. Being in that cell, laying in that bed every night, I cried...I threw away everything.

But lucky for me, when I came home everything was somewhat still in place, but for a lot of guys it isn't like that. Being in prison doesn't make you a man...being away from your family and having a daughter born while you're prison...that right there will make you a man. Talking about having your heart snatched out of your chest and stomped on. That's what made me get my life in order.

I got a daughter, I got a son, I got a wife...I made a very selfish decision by putting myself in that position to go to prison. To have my daughter born while I was in prison, it is something that I'll always have a difficult time getting over. The only thing I can do now is to be a better father. But, to see my family for the first time when I was locked up, you want to talk about sticking a knife through your heart, that'll do it.

Everybody has been asking me why did I stay in New York? The foundation is already set for the platform I have in this town to be able to give back, to go into these communities and do charitable work. For me to come back here to do what I love to do and to re-establish myself back in New York and New Jersey, I think it was the right thing to do...not to run away from it, but try to finish something that I started.

I LOVE New York City, I love the people, I love everything about it, my fans have thankfully embraced me...I just love this town and I am so humble at this point in my life, that I just want to make my family proud and this city a better place for young people to grow up in.

-Plaxico Burress

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Looking forward to his redemption tour.
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Me, Cedric, SirCharles, and another NTer will be in 323. Copp 2 and his buddies are joining us for pregame tailgate so if you and whoever else wanna join, let's do it
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Me, Cedric, SirCharles, and another NTer will be in 323. Copp 2 and his buddies are joining us for pregame tailgate so if you and whoever else wanna join, let's do it
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anyone who wants to join us email me at [email protected] for my number. im going to try and set up things tomorrow in regards to who's going to bring what for the tailgate. i wanna get everything set up so we have enough of everything and not too much of one thing or what have you.
 
anyone who wants to join us email me at [email protected] for my number. im going to try and set up things tomorrow in regards to who's going to bring what for the tailgate. i wanna get everything set up so we have enough of everything and not too much of one thing or what have you.
 
I'm gonna keep an eye out for yall (even though I don't know what you look like
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) just got a gig workin with a fan-experience-team type of thing on gamedays and we'll be roaming the 300s on Sunday.
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I'm gonna keep an eye out for yall (even though I don't know what you look like
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) just got a gig workin with a fan-experience-team type of thing on gamedays and we'll be roaming the 300s on Sunday.
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Checking in, just a few hours away.

To all the NTers going, have a great time. To oldmanwearz, I'll buy the Daily News for you tomorrow morning so you can see if we won or lost, because you'll be out cold by kickoff.

Got wings and Heineken on deck for tonight
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Checking in, just a few hours away.

To all the NTers going, have a great time. To oldmanwearz, I'll buy the Daily News for you tomorrow morning so you can see if we won or lost, because you'll be out cold by kickoff.

Got wings and Heineken on deck for tonight
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grampa NY suggested a pop into this thread.


looking forward to this game of yours tonight...hope rob has something up his sleeve for rex
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grampa NY suggested a pop into this thread.


looking forward to this game of yours tonight...hope rob has something up his sleeve for rex
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